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Mark your calendar for Center presentations at APTA Annua-Transit Apprenticeship & Safety Culture

Posted October 2015

As the dates are approaching for the 2015 APTA Annual Meeting in San Francisco, Executive Director of the Transportation Learning Center, Jack Clark, and his two colleagues Brian Turner and Xinge Wang, are busy getting ready to lead presentations and exchanges on two hot topics in transit - developing and implementing apprenticeships for transit frontline workforce, and ways to improve transit safety culture.  Both presentations will be held on Tuesday, October 6, at Imperial Ballroom A of Hilton Union Square.

The first topic - Apprenticeship: America’s Modern System for Meeting the Transit Workforce Challenge - will be part of a 90-minute morning session on Changing Dynamics in Building a Sustainable Workforce: Innovations and Best Practices. The Center’s presentation will focus on expanding apprenticeship programs for the three technical occupations with DOL approved apprenticeship frameworks - Bus, Rail Car, and Elevator/Escalator Technicians, and developing national frameworks and resources for two new apprenticeable transit occupations - Coach Operators and Signals Maintainers.

The afternoon presentation, Cultivating a Safety Culture that Lasts in Public Transportation will examine the findings in the Transit Cooperative Research Program 2015 Report 174, Improving Safety Culture in Public Transportation. The presentation will help define safety culture and describe ways that agencies and labor unions can assess and improve it.

For further information on the sessions and the full Annual Meeting program, please visit: http://www.apta.com/mc/annual/program/Pages/default.aspx.